Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29041 — The fetus of a free woman

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled, in a case of causing the miscarriage of the child in a woman's womb, a male slave or a female slave. The person against whom he (peace and blessings be upon him) had ruled began to say: "Is blood money to be paid for one who neither drank anything nor ate anything, nor cried out loud? Blood like this goes unavenged!" At that, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, this man speaks the way a poet speaks. In any case, for destroying the child in the womb a ghurrah, that is, a male slave or a female slave, must be given."